Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: ][gs+ Message-ID: <8427@smoke.ARPA> Date: 4 Sep 88 07:27:37 GMT References: <8809030036.AA17658@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 21 In article <8809030036.AA17658@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-simasd!pro-carolina!gregp@nosc.mil writes: >All Apple continues to do is lose its devoted user base. Exactly right. Despite lots of reassurances about how Apple is putting as much development into the Apple II family as into the Mac, there sure isn't a lot of evidence for that. Almost every interesting new Apple peripheral is supported for the Mac for a year or more before the Apple II receives support (if ever). I don't know why Apple seems to think the Apple II line could be a competitive threat for the Mac. If I ever switch to another family, it sure won't be to the Mac, particularly now that Apple has gotten me pissed off at the way they treat their Apple II customers. On the other hand, if they come out with significant improvements in the Apple II line I am likely to buy those products, in order to propagate my large existing investment (especially in software). If they're really delaying Apple II enhancements for marketing reasons, then they're being pretty stupid. I needed them yesterday and may have to drop Apple altogether if they don't rapidly improve the Apple II line. They're not going to sell me a Mac in any case.